Memory stick pro used by the Sony nex lines is the recovery-friendly type of memory card. If your dear baby boy successfully delete all your photos from an alpha nex-5, don’t be panic, they can be recovered with photo recovery software for Sony without much fuss.

When photos and videos deleted from the memory stick, it is the pointer to the data files removed from the file allocation table rather than the actual data files being destroyed. Meanwhile the memory block where the deleted images/videos currently holding is marked as unused and will be overwritten when new data comes.

To recover deleted images from Sony nex-5, you need to keep that very memory block from being overwritten. You should not take any more photos after the mistaken deletion or transfer large data files to or from the camera before the photo recovery is done.

Now to recover deleted photos from Sony nex-5

The method can be also applied to other models from nex line such as Sony alpha nex-c3, nex-7, nex-3 and more…

Frist download photo recovery software for Sony nex-5 cameras, the software will works for both raw and jpeg images, videos and audios.

Now connect your Sony nex camera with computer.

Launch the software, select media drive, the memory stick should be labeled as “removable drive”

Click scan, after a while there will be a lot of deleted files found and displayed on the program interface, organized by file types and file extensions. If all your photos are found, you can abort the scan by click Cancel button. And then click Next button to recover them.

Locate the images or videos deleted by accident, click recover

Recover deleted photos from Sony alpha nex-5 camera.

Remember to back up the recovered files.